Letter

  1 Introd    |         say in every page of his work: ‘Do you want to know what
  2 Introd    |       and in his last unfinished work, Bouvard and Pecuchet, he
  3 Introd    |           the novel is as much a work of poetry as of analysis.
  4 Introd    |     century currents meet in the work of the new romantic group
  5 Introd    |        her, there appears in her work a charm like that which
  6 Introd    |        in country life, tranquil work, and a right direction given
  7 Introd    |          any interruption of his work, and such tension and excitability
  8 Introd    |    established on a large basis. Work! God wills it. That, it
  9 Introd    |  maintain a position outside his work. The organ with which he
 10 Introd    |      Salammbo as an accomplished work of erudition. Salammbo is
 11 Introd    |  erudition. Salammbo is indeed a work of erudition; years were
 12 Introd    |          Madame Bovary is also a work of erudition, and Bouvard
 13 Introd    |        Bouvard and Pecuchet is a work of enormous erudition; a
 14 Introd    |           Sunday reading.’” As a work of fiction and recreation
 15 Introd    |  physical regimen, bad habits of work in excessive quantities,
 16 Introd    |        It can’t be imperative to work so painfully”—such is the
 17 Introd    |        as incidents of the day’s work and not magnify them into
 18 Introd    |        take whole days from your work, I who am never bored with
 19 II        |         again for this admirable work of which the scope is so
 20 XVI       |         grace, since you love to work and to be alone in spite
 21 XVIII     |  hieroglyphics, and they used to work in gold very well, because
 22 XXVII     |        away, but I hindered your work, and then,—and then,—a malady
 23 XXVIII    |       has four years to wait, to work to make himself a position,
 24 XXVIII    |      longer. Good night, friend, work well, sleep well. Walk a
 25 XXXI      |       comrade before starting to work.~I am QUITE ALONE in my
 26 XXXII     |       must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short
 27 XXXIII    |          nature.~Our excesses of work, as our excesses of pleasure,
 28 XXXIII    |         me with your painstaking work; is it a coquetry? It does
 29 XXXV      |    accomplished certain definite work,” and he works. She said
 30 XXXV      |         joys and sorrows, we who work with our brains. The laborer
 31 XXXV      |          the infinite, and their work eager, verging on enthusiasm,
 32 XXXV      |        warmly. Good luck to your work.~G. Sand~
 33 XXXVII    |         least know how to set to work to write, and I begin by
 34 XXXVIII   |        oneself entirely to one’s work, seems to me as impossible
 35 XLI       |        to push the entomological work which Maurice is publishing.
 36 XLII      |  whatever. Cold, or weakness, or work, I don’t know. I don’t think
 37 XLII      |         little ideal of peaceful work, country life, and of tender
 38 XLIII     |        formed, but the days that work does not go well are not
 39 XLIV      |   oneself from everything except work, and have more rather than
 40 XLIV      |     attention to them. Then this work which you abuse so in words,
 41 XLV       |         when he complains of his work. What a task! and what a
 42 XLVI      |     person, the one who wants to work again and to produce. What
 43 XLVI      |     every fine day at noon. Your work would flow more abundantly
 44 XLVI      |         world. I live by my day, work as does the proletarian;
 45 XLVI      |        can no longer do my day’s work, I shall be packed up for
 46 XLVIII    |     longer and let spring do the work, spring which perhaps will
 47 XLVIII    |         the desire to take up my work again. I shall be as docile
 48 LVI       |        heart,~I am well, I am at work, I am finishing Cadio. It
 49 LIX       |          you are still buried in work, we shall only come and
 50 LIX       |      great trouble in setting to work again at it. But I am wonderfully
 51 LIX       |       moreover he criticised the work very well, as an artist
 52 LX        |        take whole days from your work, I who am never bored with
 53 LX        |          He bent his head on his work. I put it near him, he did
 54 LXI       |          respect these crises of work; I know them! Here am I
 55 LXI       |         edifying life, I used to work and did not cut into my
 56 LXI       |           Think of me sometimes, work well and call me when you
 57 LXII      |        hard my old friend has to work in order to write a novel,
 58 LXII      |      with you; but I really must work, since I have only that
 59 LXX       |      tremendously. And you. Your work? your mother’s health? I
 60 LXXI      |          I am usually prompt.~My work does not go very well. I
 61 LXXII     |       for he has stupid and easy work, and his thoughts run elsewhere
 62 LXXII     |         writing. As for you, you work for truth, and you become
 63 LXXIV     |        force you to suspend your work and let it grow cold.~Well,
 64 LXXIV     |        one is on a vacation, how work, logic, reason seem strange
 65 LXXVI     |          fashion. Not an iota of work from morning till night.
 66 LXXXVI    |        the daytime four hours of work, in the evening, recreation,
 67 LXXXVII   |       you, and if there is in my work, something that seems MEAN
 68 LXXXVIII  |       trouble in getting back to work. I am like the camels, which
 69 LXXXIX    |          carry the burden of the work once more. She needs to
 70 XCVII     |          draws me in.~However, I work at my novel like a lot of
 71 XCVII     |         still six good months of work. I shall go to Paris as
 72 XCVIII    |     perspective and judges one’s work better. I know that. Say
 73 XCIX      |        the news!~Here is mine! I work immoderately and am absolutely
 74 C         |     heated up, and besides for a work which you curse, and which—
 75 C         |      very little, but I know his work by heart. What talent! and
 76 C         |     amuse himself better than to work!~Scorn me profoundly, but
 77 CI        |      rules.~As for my frenzy for work, I will compare it to an
 78 CIII      |        two hours a day to get to work on it; I am not sorry to
 79 CIV       |         always so, when I get to work. It is then that I am bored,
 80 CIV       |         who is anxious about the work in itself, in an intense
 81 CV        |       much occupied with his own work, to forget himself in estimating
 82 CVI       |        leave and who only let me work when they sleep; but I am
 83 CVI       |         and fastened it over her work table at Nohant.]~What a
 84 CXI       |          to talk of you, of your work, to forget mine, God be
 85 CXXI      |          is a stylish problem to work at, and its solution would
 86 CXXII     |        France, Robert Houdins to work miracles! The greatest crime
 87 CXXIV     |        in the midst of this hard work. I botanize and I bathe
 88 CXXV      |         courage in the sickening work of proof-reading. As for
 89 CXXV      |      from the Odeon. They are at work putting on my play and do
 90 CXXXIII   |         ask for at the moment. I work alternately on MY novel,
 91 CXXXIV    |         and the severity of your work to do without flowers of
 92 CXLI      |          you are in the mood for work. Critics are a challenge
 93 CXLII     |        the time of holiday after work. I am finishing tonight
 94 CXLIV     |       and so good! They had hard work to bring him up, he was
 95 CXLIX     |        room. I hope to resume my work at the Odeon in a couple
 96 CLIV      |       the moment! However hard I work, it doesn’t go! Everything
 97 CLV       |   accustomed to it; if we do not work on ourselves, how can we
 98 CLV       |         to be always in shape to work on others?~Well, in the
 99 CLVIII    |  exalting it is! What a charming work and how they love the author!
100 CLXI      |       would become of me without work? However, it is very hard
101 CLXI      |          finish, so as to set to work at Saint-Antoine. As that
102 CLXIII    |          But I am not ill, and I work a little now and then while
103 CLXIV     |     little children absorb me. I work, however, planning and dreaming.
104 CLXV      |       was very good for me; this work is very painful in every
105 CLXV      |     quite occupied by my present work. It is a task that will
106 CLXVI     |        After that I shall set to work on Saint-Antoine.~And you,
107 CLXVIII   |   however, that this extravagant work is going to get hold of
108 CLXIX     |         in it every day after my work; for I must work, Buloz
109 CLXIX     |        after my work; for I must work, Buloz advances me too much
110 CLXXI     |         rightly that in order to work, a certain lightness was
111 CLXXII    |          melancholy, in spite of work, in spite of the good Saint-Antoine
112 CLXXXIV   |         ourselves to take up our work again, we resign ourselves;
113 CLXXXIV   |          in peace and be able to work; for that must be, whether
114 CLXXXVII  |        your workshop? If you can work again there, peace will
115 CLXXXIX   |          time in getting down to work again. What do you think
116 CXCII     |       not a penny, and I have to work like a negro. And then I
117 CXCIII    |    protect them and continue our work? It seems to me that in
118 CXCIV     |      then quite overwhelmed with work! How long a time it is since
119 CXCVII    |          extreme and the lack of work forced them to go to war
120 CXCVII    |         become idle and that the work of classifying, whatever
121 CXCVII    |        the Germanic race gets to work, the race whose disciplinary
122 CCXII     |          a thing is very serious work.~Method is the highest thing
123 CCXVI     |     Croisset, and shall start to work again at the manuscript.
124 CCXVII    |       going, I hope, to start at work as soon as I have finished
125 CCXVII    |         my heart.~Heavens! don’t work nor sit up too much, as
126 CCXVIII   |    symbolism hidden in Maurice’s work? But I did not find it. ...
127 CCXIX     |      tired, worn out with URGENT work: finishing my novel, and
128 CCXX      |          have not finished their work, and we are very inconveniently
129 CCXX      |          What genius, how fine a work the Ethics is!~
130 CCXXII    |       made to absorb yourself in work are changed. If you have
131 CCXXIV    |       have an important piece of work that I must finish, and
132 CCXXV     |       short time.~I have started work again, for existence is
133 CCXXXII   |         that it is impossible to work. Moreover, the sight of
134 CCXXXIII  |         Opinion nationale with a work by her; an article for le
135 CCXXXIII  |     working for those who do not work. I do not complain. I am
136 CCXXXV    |          I have resumed my usual work, and I continue my river
137 CCXXXVIII |         friends, you plunge into work, and reckon ass lost the
138 CCXXXIX   |          For I have undertaken a work of great scope, which will
139 CCXL      |        that you are talking of a work of great scope? or is it
140 CCXLIII   |       included in the web of the work, and which make it what
141 CCXLIV    |          deal; for Maurice and I work in a desert, never knowing,
142 CCXLV     |          were the recompense for work, or could be! That will
143 CCXLV     |         no! And then how measure work, how estimate the effort?
144 CCXLV     |          commercial value of the work remains. For that one would
145 CCXLV     |         more irreproachable as a work.~I read last week the Illustre
146 CCXLVI    |         believe then in your own work? Do let yourself be influenced
147 CCXLVII   |           But, I maintain that a work of art (worthy of that name
148 CCLII     |      your lovely house. Come and work, at our house; how perfectly
149 CCLVII    |          I shall be through that work in three weeks. After that,
150 CCLVIII   |          not yet done an iota of work since I returned from Paris,
151 CCLVIII   |      doing nothing! And how good work will seem to me after it!
152 CCLXI     |          no more question of any work, of any literature at all,
153 CCLXIII   |         heart. But you love your work better than your friends,
154 CCLXIII   |       hope to resume tomorrow my work that has been absolutely
155 CCLXV     |        more.~G. Sand Monday~Hard work? When indeed can I start
156 CCLXVI    |    inordinately long.~I did this work in two days, and Cruchard
157 CCLXX     |       What a world in which such work were produced!~
158 CCLXXII   |          the man but not for the work) accompanied by two beautiful
159 CCLXXIII  |        to the limit. This little work that I shall start in six
160 CCLXXV    |      have been mistaken. I am at work now on a play; it is not
161 CCLXXV    |        no fun in anything except work that has not been read to
162 CCLXXIX   |       respect for his posthumous work.~Without believing in an
163 CCLXXX    |       You know that? An adorable work for children and parents.
164 CCLXXXI   |       short, there is a dramatic work, declared by the managers
165 CCLXXXI   |         floundering about in the work of another! in cutting it,
166 CCLXXXIII |       indigestion and yet hardly work at all, I am disquieted
167 CCLXXXIII | Christmas. Maurice is already at work preparing a splendid performance
168 CCLXXXIV  | unhealthy things, but the latter work seemed to me extremely amusing;
169 CCLXXXIV  |        torturing myself about my work, I am groaning about myself.
170 CCLXXXVII |     stint, and perhaps it is the work that makes me ill, for I
171 CCLXXXVIII|          day.~You fancy that the work of the spirit is only in
172 CCXCI     |      evening I am going to begin work without looking behind me.~
173 CCXCV     |  resigned to it, and I am not.~I work all the more, so as not
174 CCXCVII   |    progress, you have given up a work that would not have made
175 CCXCVIII  |   patient with these miseries, I work all the more, and I do water-colors
176 CCC       |     victory over despair was the work of my will and of a new
177 CCC       |        so general a dislike of a work that was so well done and
178 CCCI      |          enlarge my brain, and I work in the sincerity of my heart.
179 CCCI      |       not appear any more in his work than God in nature. The
180 CCCI      |          The man is nothing, the work is everything! This method,
181 CCCII     |   perhaps eternal, and therefore work is eternal. If this is so,
182 CCCII     |          so, let us do our day’s work bravely. If it is otherwise,
183 CCCII     |           you read, you dig, you work much more than I and a crowd
184 CCCII     |          rule of GOOD TASTE! Our work is worth only what we are
185 CCCII     |         you lose interest in his work, you neglect it, or you
186 CCCII     |        bad, or if it is you. You work, however, to rouse him and
187 CCCV      |       comical to behold. In your work, what produced the greatest
188 CCCVI     |          wrote me that your last work was very remarkable: then
189 CCCIX     |       shaken to start on a great work. I had thought first of
190 CCCXII    |       which he needs in order to work, I could get back a part
191 CCCXII    |          I have interrupted this work to make some researches
192 CCCXII    |       human basis of this little work will please you!~Adieu,
193 CCCXVII   |       have been able to start at work again, I owe it partly to
194 CCCXVII   |      order to get the quicker at work, I shall stay here till
195 CCCXVIII  |         was in the midst of this work. Thus it is with our dreams.~
196 CCCXVIII  |       forget the weight of it, I work as frantically as possible.~
197 CCCXVIII  |  concocting. I shall have enough work in it to take me three or